European News

Amund Svendsen, the man who started polocrosse in Norway and has been the chairman from the inception of the Norwegian Polocrosse Associatio, has stepped down. Amund has been one of the driving forces behind Norwegian polocrosse and is a very keen and dedicated player, keeping a horse in the UK and travelling to it a Read more…

Report by Fleur Bartels The weekend of the 5th and 6th of June saw France claim the Four Nations Cup, at“Dop heets Del” in Kootwijkerbroek, Holland. Teams from France, Norway, Germany, Holland all played against each other in sunny Kootwijkerbroek. This competition took place to help the preparation of all four of mainland Europe polocrosse Read more…

Report by Fleur Bartels The ‘test matches’ between Norway and Holland took place last weekend in Rauland, Norway. The Dutch and Norwegian players stayed at the riding centre in Rauland, which is located in a beautiful scenery in the south of Norway. The riding centre also provided the horses for the Dutch players. The Norwegians Read more…

Report by Fleur Bartels On the weekend of the 12th and 13th of September, the 4th Dutch Open tournament took place in Exloërveen (North-East Holland). There were 11 teams playing from Germany and Holland in 3 different categories: A, B and C. The A final on Sunday afternoon was between the teams Holland 3, with Read more…

The European Challenge took place at the Northern Racing College on the 4th and 5th of July and to welcome the European teams the sun decided to beat down on Bawtry for the whole of the weekend. There was a high risk on sunburn for the players as the United Kingdom won the European Challenge Read more…

Report written by Penny Webb – UK Player After a lot of organisation and last minute changes, a Men’s and Ladies England team made it out to Cork, Ireland to play against what turned out to be Ireland’s top Men and Ladies at the wonderful grounds of Ballendinisk, hosted by the newly formed Cork Polocrosse Read more…

The Irish National Polocrosse Finals 2008 were held on the last weekend in August at Davern Equestrian Centre, Clonmel and were proudly hosted by the Tipperary Polocrosse Club. There were 147 players representing their clubs from Carrickmines, Tipperary, Limerick, Birr, Horetown, Waterford, and the newest club of all Cork. Players descended on Clonmel on Friday Read more…

Ireland lifted the title in the European Challenge Championship trophy, with France and the UK separated on goal difference in second and third respectively. The UK and Ireland teams were not full strength squads but instead were handicaps sides with a handicap limit of four and below for each player. That should not, however, in Read more…